SolarMAX - A Solar Power System for your Maker project!
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SolarMAX - A solar power system designed for microcomputers, especially the Raspberry Pi and SkyWeather Stations.
Backers: 23
Average Pledge Per Backer: $193
Funded: $4,443 of $2,500
Dates: Oct 30th -> Nov 19th (21 days)
Project By: SwitchDoc Labs
Backers: 23
Average Pledge Per Backer: $193
Funded: $4,443 of $2,500
Dates: Oct 30th -> Nov 19th (21 days)
Project By: SwitchDoc Labs
$4,443
current pledge level
Last Updated: November 19 @ 11:07 -0500 GMT
177%
of goal
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Latest News
SolarMAX Monitor Blynk Coming to Life! 
November 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We have made a lot of progress in building the SolarMAX Monitor Blynk App. It now receives packets from SolarMAX LiPo, SolarMax Lead Acid and also Solar WXLink. All we have running now is reading the packet receive time, but we will have... (Read More)
SolarMAX LiPo in Palm Springs is Rocking!
November 16th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We have the production prototype of SolarMAX LiPo (actually it is now the same as what we will be shipping) running down in Palm Springs right now on a SkyWeather installation. It is rocking and charging very well right now! This unit... (Read More)
New Blynk App being built
November 15th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, Thanks to an excellent question and comment from Racky on forum.switchdoc.com we are now quickly building a Raspberry Pi based monitoring program that will display SolarMAX system information on a Blynk App not connected with SkyWeather, but... (Read More)
Everything Works!
November 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, We got the last piece of hardware in last week (A high current INA3221 3 channel ADC board with Grove and screw terminals) and we are pleased to say it works perfectly. We are designing this into our SolarMAX LiPo and SolarMAX Lead Acid as it... (Read More)
Status Update
November 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
Folks, Here is the status of various parts of this project: 1) Hardware - High Current INA3221 has been shipped from our manufacturer. Should be in house latest this week. We will update on the testing. This is the last piece of hardware we are... (Read More)
SolarMAX Lead Acid testing
October 31st - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks for a great first day. We allowed our test 100W solar panel to be covered with snow for the SolarMAX Lead Acid in order to allow the battery to discharge. SolarMAX turned off at about 11V on the battery as expected. We swept the snow off... (Read More)
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